I use each of these items every day to help manage my diabetes. Each one tracks a necessary variable. In order to optimize my treatment, I need to analyze the data I collect, and yet none of these devices talk to one another or have a common analysis platform. I advocate for simplifying diabetes data collection and analysis, while empowering patients. (See my proposal, Pixels: Your Personal Diabetes Big Picture).
This post is one in a series for the National Diabetes Month of November. Kerri from sixuntilme.com initiated the Photo-a-Day idea and prompts and lots of other diabetes bloggers have chosen to follow suite.